IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41832 accession number: C.31B-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 20 September 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellowish-green, bluish-green, yellow, pink, dark puce, red, grey, and a little black enamels. The slightly concave underside is glazed except for the outer edge, and has a central ventilation hole filled with a brown substance. The roughly quatrefoil base has a sloping gadrooned edge. In the centre there is a tree trunk with two main branches and several smaller ones bearing polychrome applied flowers and leaves forming bocage. Between the two main branches at the top there is an oval hole to take a candle branch. At the back a branch curves downward from the trunk to the base to form a handle, which has a horizontal pansy on the top to serve as a thumbpiece. On a ledge at the front of the trunk there is a nest containing three yellow chicks. The parent buntings perch on top of the two main branches, looking down protectively towards the nest. They have pale yellow and grey plumage and pink legs and beaks. On the viewer's left of the base there is a recumbent black and white dog with a dark puce collar, which looks up into the tree. The gadrooned edge is picked out in pink and dark puce. A pair with C.31A-1932 object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in enamels. title: candlestick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41832 SUBJECTS ------------------- bunting tree bunting tree TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.9 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Catalogue of the Lady Ludlow Collection Early English and Continental Ceramics and Glass Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991 English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---